I think it might be, there’s no way Anakin would be able to buy proprietary hardware or software. So either he stole it, which his mother probably would not have allowed. Or he was able to scrap all the parts together because there is a template for humanoid protocol droids that we have also seen round Star Wars. And then the software itself either Anakin programed entirely himself, (which I know he’s very smart, but even that seems a stretch) or he forked it. So it would make more sense that there was an open source catalog of protocol droid software. It also would make more sense due to the fact that a lot of people have droids, but they are not all created equal. I would think many of the droids on Coruscant were proprietary, while many of the droids in the outer rim are open source.

I kept getting annoyed with lemmy clients being confusing, hard to navigate, or just plain ugly. So I did my best to create a web app that now I use every day. It kind of works like Tinder, you swipe right to up vote, left to down vote, and swipe down to just mark as read. I actually designed it that way because I did a hell of a lot of research on different theories as to how we should treat voting sites like Lemmy or Reddit. I realized that the endless feed actually caused me to engage less. Mostly because I wouldn’t really take the time to consider each post. Coincidentally I actually feel more engaged because of this swipe interaction that Tinder uses, making a decision for each post. Marking as read or swiping down means “it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s allowed”. Swipe left is “this is not okay/spam”. And swipe right is “I think this needs more attention”. Anyways, thought I would share the public link, as per usual, you can log into whatever instance you have. I also gave it a slightly esoteric name and a cool logo based on cave art of human hands. (And also hid a bonus matrix rain theme in the settings).